Tea Party Groups More Likely to Get IRS Look Than Others
Source: Bloomberg
Tea Party groups were more likely than self-identified “progressives” to be given extra scrutiny for political involvement by the Internal Revenue Service from 2010 through 2012, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
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“While we have multiple sources of information corroborating the use of Tea Party and other related criteria,” said inspector general J. Russell George, “including employee interviews, e-mails and other documents, we found no indication in any of these other materials that ‘progressives’ was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political campaign intervention.”
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“The IG didn’t even give us a hint that progressive groups were targeted,” said Representative Joseph Crowley, a New York Democrat.
According to the inspector general’s letter, the IRS gave extra scrutiny to six of the 20 groups with “progress” or “progressive” in their names. The inspector general’s May audit said there were 96 groups with “Tea Party,” “patriot” or “9/12” in their names.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-27/tea-party-groups-more-likely-to-get-irs-look-than-others.html
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